Books published by Practical Inspiration Publishing

It's a tough job, translating strategic direction from the top into results on the ground, especially when the world is changing so fast. Own Your Day gives you simple, powerful tools to help you be more effective every day, and to help you help your team to succeed.

An essential walk-through for businesses that need to create a brand but don't have the budget for an agency.

"e;Health care professionals and those who take care of others should read this outstanding book!"e; - Dr. Richard Gillett, psychiatrist and bestselling author of It's a Freakin' Mess"e;I cannot recommend this book highly enough."e; - Dr. Sarah Eagger, consultant psychiatrist and co-author of Stillness in the StormHow to balance your own self-care with the needs of others As a helping professional, caregiver, or someone who puts others first, it is so easy to ignore your own needs. Becoming physically run-down, emotionally burned-out, and spiritually depleted can result in frustration and anxiety - even disillusionment.Sarah Kuipers knows this all too well. She ran a successful health practice for over 20 years. The combined pressure of work and bringing up three boys as a single parent finally led to debilitating burnout.Sarah was curious about why so many people, including health professionals, fail to manage stress and practice self-care. She completed a Masters in Research on stress and burnout, and now teaches stress management to medical students.Caring for others starts with caring for yourselfThis timely and practical book encourages you to create a life in which you thrive. Only then can you give your best to the world each day.The Thriving Giver helps you create a personalised toolkit of self-care skills and practical resources to:Reduce stress and calm anxietyPrevent work stress leaching into home lifeReplenish energyRelease emotional distress to shift your mindset Reignite enthusiasm for workThis user-friendly book offers:Simple, doable steps Short chapters with anecdotes to explain key conceptsSignposts so you can cherry-pick the chapters you needBegin reading The Thriving Giver, and in just a few minutes a day you will learn effective new ways to nurture your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. When you thrive, your giving is sustainable.

What does it really take to succeed in business in the developing world? One man's remarkable journey from a rural Nigerian village to a top job in a global corporation reveals the challenges, the opportunities and the issues we must all face up to if we're to create positive organizational and societal impact, equality and equity in global business. Babs Omotowa has spent his life rejecting the status quo. His own career disproves the unthinking perception that Africans underperform in global businesses, and his insistence that bigger societal issues such as community development, corruption, transparency and pollution belong on the corporate agenda alongside market and production target has revolutionized big business's approach to the developing world. From government agency blockades due to his refusal to pay an illegal levy, to the fallout from his resistance to paying $2bn to fund elections, to bringing transparency to oil spills and revenues to government, to creating strategic master-planning for community development and to taking tough stance to address corruption issues, his story exposes the challenges of big businesses in developing countries and reveals a better way for multinational companies to navigate these challenges: with integrity and courage.

Project Future is a structured framework to help aspiring entrepreneurs, freelancers and contractors plan for success. Discover a lightweight, practical, project-management based approach to evaluating options and moving forwards to a remarkable future.

When you become the final decision maker, everything changesWe all know that it's tough at the top. But nothing, nothing can quite prepare you for becoming CEO.Philip Levinson has experienced that "e;What now?"e; moment as a rookie CEO. In Three Peaks Leadership, he shares the challenges he's faced and the lessons he's learned to help aspiring and new leaders prepare for life as a CEO. The book charts a typical CEO journey, starting in the foothills, looking ahead to the role and how you can prepare for it, before scaling the three peaks:* the first 100 days in role* running the business, and* preparing your company and yourself for your exit.It's an expedition that needs the right preparation, mindset and approach, not to mention stamina, resilience and support.Three Peaks Leadership offers a unique route map for that journey. It's a hands-on guide, a framework of strategies, tools and techniques that will inform the rest of your career.Whether you're in the foothills or already scaling your first CEO summit, Three Peaks Leadership will show you the way.

'Lead Beyond The Edge' inspires and equips you to lead extraordinarily at work and at home. Its distinctive scientific leadership framework enables leaders like you to act in spite of fear and provides you with the mind strategies you need to overcome any challenges. Accomplish anything, anytime, anywhere!

Every leader cares about inclusivity, wellbeing and performance. For technical organizations these issues are especially acute: in the least diverse sectors, with every-increasing issues around mental health and resilience, companies need to realize continuous gains in performance and productivity to stay ahead,or even just to stay in the game,in a fiercely competitive space. How can leaders square the circle?This book will show you how to build a Strengths-Based Organization: an organization which is based on the scientific understanding of what helps individuals to flourish and organizations to reap the benefits.

A step-by-step playbook of EXACTLY how to deliver successful transformations and large-scale change programs with the best chance of success.

Transform your life, work and organization with a 6-point philosophy of work to inspire yourself and your people from the inside out.

Whether you practise yoga or not, these powerful, ancient tools will help you find clarity and peace of mind in a busy world.

***Selected as one of the Financial Times's Best Business Books of 2020***An exploration of our obsession with winning across society (sport, business, education, politics) and a new approach to defining success to fit the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century - The Long Win.

A blueprint for business success: 75 essential lessons to help you start, scale and sell your business - adding value and making you a better leader along the way.

The instruction book that didn't come with your child. A comprehensive guide to being the best parent you can be, connecting and communicating in a conscious and confident way with your children, so that you can both enjoy a great relationship and you can help them shine their unique brilliance in the world.

The way HR is working isn't working. Research suggests that people are unhappier at work than ever. We've spent decades chasing silver bullets in HR, but there is another way. People Not Paperclips draws on the fields of OD, psychology and cultural change to put the 'human' back into Human Resources.

A book for managers who have tried to deliver business change but felt frustrated and disempowered by the experience, for people who want to stand up and make a difference igniting and inspiring successful change but don't know where to start. This is a complete toolkit for aspiring Change Superheroes!

Collaborative Creativity is a powerful methodology for groups that uses short bursts of creative challenges to help people go beyond rational/conscious thinking and uncover, with constructive consequences, the emotional/irrational sphere that influences behaviour.

Get more done. Seize Control. Start Today. Simple, immediate, actionable ideas on how directors, managers and business owners can get more done, more quickly. If you want to look back on your working week with satisfaction and eagerly anticipate the next, read this book. And start your own Monday Revolution, this week.

Discover how to reclaim your ability to make intentional decisions about where to place your time and attention, to improve your creativity, happiness, and success.

This book explores the common challenges that arise as a project team has to scale up, based around a three-part strategy: align the teams, keep them engaged, and build their resilience so that they become an effective 'team of teams'.

A toolkit designed for small businesses, packed with industry secrets from a PR professional that will teach you how to be your own best publicist.

***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2021 SHORTLISTED TITLE***Stressed and unhappy at work, Celia Gaze thought to herself one day: "e;Surely there mustbe more to life than this?"e; She resigned from her high-powered health management role and started transforming a neglected farm into an award-winning wedding venue. She faced nearly every type of challenge an entrepreneur canface - tribunals, near bankruptcy, court hearings, staff issues, system problems - and survived to tell the tale. But the moment that transformed her business from a struggle to a success was the moment she put a bow tie on a llama. Everyone thought she was crazy - why on earth would you do that? But it turns out that the 'crazy' ideas are often the ones that change your life. This book is a roadmap for uncovering your crazy idea and implementing it. From the pitfalls and problems to the practical details of making your idea happen, this is a roadmap for anyone who wants more out of life.

A group of archaeology students on a university dig are too busy excavating an ancient settlement to explore further up the remote Highland glen. Only Lisa suspects there is more to discover.Lisa, Finn and Matthew share a secret; of a strange meeting, now a precious but distant memory, too dangerous to reveal to anybody else. But Lisa has a feeling that venturing further into the glen might give the three of them the chance of a reunion.It turns into an experience they will never forget. Judy Hayman is the author of the Dragon Tales chronicles, a series of books for younger readers, illustrated by Caroline Wolfe Murray. This is her first book for Young Adults.